Orchestrate student experience for the AI age

Traditional CCaaS platforms can require educational institutions to adapt complex operations to a standardized cloud architecture. Avaya Infinity takes a different approach by connecting interactions, AI, institutional data, existing systems, and workflows through a real-time orchestration layer.

That gives universities, colleges, districts, and other educational organizations a way to modernize student experience while building on existing Avaya, student information, learning, service, data, and technology investments rather than treating the contact center as an isolated application.

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Avaya Infinity is designed for complex contact centers with thousands of agents. Cloud, hybrid, and on-premises options combine with geo-redundancy, API gateway support, health monitoring, and hyperscaler infrastructure. Capacity and deployment design are tailored to the environment’s requirements rather than treated as a single fixed configuration.

For educational institutions, deployment planning can account for enrollment peaks, distributed teams, and existing service commitments.

Model Context Protocol provides a standardized way for AI to connect with enterprise systems, data, and tools.

For educational institutions, that can help AI work with appropriate context from student information systems, CRM, enrollment platforms, knowledge systems, IT services, learning platforms, and other authorized sources instead of operating as a disconnected assistant.

It also gives institutions a more open way to introduce agentic AI without relying entirely on proprietary integrations tied to one AI provider.

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Avaya Infinity uses the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and unified Lakehouse to create an AI-ready data foundation with centralized governance and audit trails.

For educational institutions, that can help connect structured and unstructured interaction information with relevant institutional data while maintaining centralized governance and auditability. Delta Sharing enables secure, zero-copy sharing of authorized data, helping AI and analytics use current context without creating another disconnected data silo.

Pre-built assets help business managers access insights, while automated AI Judges provide visibility into human and AI agent performance.

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Tandem care combines AI and human employees into a coordinated operating model.

AI can support routine work by gathering information, summarizing interactions, surfacing relevant guidance, and coordinating next steps. Employees can then focus their expertise on moments requiring empathy, judgment, reassurance, advising, or complex problem-solving.

That balance matters in education because answering a routine registration question is very different from helping a student who is struggling academically, confused about financial aid, or unsure whether they can continue their education.

Why tandem care Is the new CX operating model

Closed-loop student experience means a question, need, or interaction results in a clear, completed next step, not simply a successfully handled contact.

Avaya Infinity can help orchestrate the journey from understanding the student’s need to triggering authorized action, routing work, coordinating AI or human follow-up, updating systems, and measuring whether the intended outcome was completed.

That can connect the contact center more directly to admissions, enrollment, advising, financial aid, registration, IT, student services, and other institutional functions.

Avaya Infinity brings inbound and outbound engagement into the same orchestration environment so institutions can make outreach more proactive, contextual, governed, and measurable.

Student and event context can help drive communications around application requirements, enrollment deadlines, financial aid documentation, registration, appointments, service interruptions, upcoming milestones, or other appropriate next steps. Capabilities including campaign management, outbound preview mode, compliance controls, real-time campaign statistics, and operational reporting help institutions manage outreach more effectively.

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Avaya Infinity supports cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployment options.

For existing Avaya education customers, that provides flexibility to modernize in stages based on infrastructure strategy, security and privacy requirements, institutional policies, operational continuity needs, budget cycles, and the readiness of individual workloads.

Because modernization does not have to begin with replacement.

CC Elite may already support critical student, family, faculty, staff, and campus service operations. Avaya Infinity provides a path to build on that foundation by adding capabilities such as real-time AI, digital channels, connected institutional data, workflow automation, and cross-system orchestration.

That allows educational institutions to modernize around the student journeys and institutional outcomes that matter most while protecting the value of existing investments.

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AI operates within enterprise controls for access, data usage, permissions, oversight, and auditability. An open architecture also gives institutions greater flexibility over which AI models and technologies they use rather than making governance dependent on a single embedded AI stack.

As AI expands across student and employee journeys, these controls can help institutions govern how AI accesses information, performs authorized work, and interacts with employees.

With support from technologies such as Databricks, teams can monitor how AI uses information, track performance, and maintain data oversight as adoption grows.

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Yes. Avaya Infinity supports bring-your-own carrier, messaging, workforce management (WFM), and AI options, and can integrate preferred workforce engagement management (WEM) tools. This gives organizations a way to retain selected provider relationships, negotiated agreements, and technology investments while adding new capabilities.

Avaya Infinity offers embedded agent experiences and integration options for Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and Microsoft Teams. Depending on the integration, employees can use capabilities such as call controls, screen pops, click-to-call, directories, and collaboration within familiar workspaces. Available functions depend on the selected integration.

Avaya works with Verint to provide workforce engagement capabilities and also supports integration with preferred WEM and WFM environments. Organizations can build on selected workforce tools already in use instead of treating their replacement as a prerequisite for CX modernization.

Avaya Infinity uses a flexible per-seat commercial model. Packages, licensing, add-ons, and services depend on organizational requirements. Named and Concurrent licensing options, volume ranges, contract terms, and bring-your-own choices provide additional flexibility. A proposal should reflect the required capabilities and deployment.

Avaya Infinity can help reduce avoidable replacement and migration costs by extending existing technology investments. Organizations can retain selected infrastructure, carrier agreements, messaging services, and workforce tools while introducing new capabilities in phases. The resulting cost profile depends on the environment and modernization scope.